Robert Wittje

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Grave monument for Robert and Helene Wittje on the Schorenfriedhof in Detmold

Robert Wittje (born December 9, 1852 in Wittenberg , † May 10, 1921 in Bad Tölz ) was a secret councilor and mayor of the city of Detmold .

Life

Robert Wittje was born on December 9, 1852 in Wittenberg as the son of Major Gustav Wittje. He attended until 1870, the secondary school in Magdeburg (Thomas Klein called instead the Domgymnasium Magdeburg ) and began on 17 July 1870 as an officer cadet in Magdeburg Rifle Battalion. 4 in. In the years 1870/71 he did his military service and was made lieutenant by Christmas 1871 . He was retired from active duty as a captain on August 15, 1893 . Then Wittje lived with his wife Helene, geb. Heller, in Wandsbek . Here was her son, the future Nazi -Abgeordnete curt wittje , to the world. He was employed in the Wandsbek magistrate and from December 15, 1894 member of the management of the Explosivstoff-Werke Spiralit . From May 1, 1896, he worked at the Wandsbek district office and from September 8, 1896, Robert Wittje was mayor of Carlshafen .

In the replacement election on October 11, 1900 in the Reichstag constituency of Kassel 1 district , he ran for the National Liberal Party and received 1,467 votes, which corresponded to 17.2% of the votes.

In the 20th century he moved to Detmold, where Wittje became mayor of the city on July 29, 1903. In 1919 he submitted his declaration of resignation, which was accepted by the Detmold city council on May 22, 1919. Emil Peters succeeded him in the office of mayor .

Robert Wittje was chairman of the regional association of the Red Cross , the Lippe Warrior Association and a board member of the German War Association and the Kyffhäuserbund . He was a privy councilor and major a. D.

Wittje died on May 10, 1921 in Bad Tölz , his honorary grave is located together with that of his wife, who died in 1942, in the Schorenfriedhof in Detmold.

Honors

On October 1, 1919, Wittje became an honorary citizen of Detmold. Wittjestrasse in Detmold was named after him.

literature

  • Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918 - 1945/46) . Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , p. 314 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thomas Klein: The Hessians as Reichstag voters, first volume: Province of Hessen-Nassau and Waldseck-Pyrmont 1867-1933, 1989, ISBN 3-7708-0924-6 , p. 78.
  2. ↑ Honorary citizen of Detmold. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 31, 2013 ; Retrieved May 29, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Wittje, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Privy Councilor, Mayor of Detmold
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenberg
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1921
Place of death Bad Tölz